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Meatpacking, Packed

AS a line of clubgoers winds around the Hotel Gansevoort nearly every night, the G Spa & Lounge is generating a deafening drumroll for having the tightest door in New York.

With room for just 75 of the genetically blessed, G Spa, which opened this month, has to be beyond discriminating. Youth and beauty are the most valuable currency. As Fashion Week came to a close over a week ago, models, designers and front-row celebrities stepped out of the tents and came down to the meatpacking district to this dark, grottolike bar.

"I came here after the shows," said the Brazilian beauty Jeisa Chiminazzo, who looked runway-ready in Stella McCartney over-the-knee high-heeled boots. "Everybody I know is here, and it's cozy."

Gaggles of models drank cocktails served by waitresses in short robes and flip-flops and nibbled on morsels from Ono, the hotel's restaurant, while relaxing in the privacy of cabanas furnished with minibars, television sets and volume controls for the music being piped in throughout the space. The more high-spirited types danced atop two plexiglass-covered whirlpools.

"I love the music," said Kristin Cavalleri, a star of "Laguna Beach." "I've been to Marquee and Bungalow 8," she said, dropping the names of two of New York's most famous clubs. "This is more intimate, smaller, and more upbeat than Bungalow."

By late night on this Friday, Bungalow loyalists had migrated to G Spa. Paris Hilton might have been out of town, but that didn't stop her sister, Nicky, from living up to the Hilton name by carrying on the party with Lindsay Lohan.

As the night came to a close, two young women celebrated by jumping into the uncovered whirlpool in the center of the lounge.